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Pakistan Train Bombing Leaves at Least 3 Dead

by Associated Press

   QUETTA, PAKISTAN --

   Police in Pakistan say a bomb exploded aboard a moving train, killing
   at least three passengers and wounding seven others in the country's
   volatile southwest.

   Officer Abdullah Jamali says the bomb went off in one of the cars of a
   Quetta-bound train early Sunday, damaging five cars. He says two men
   and a woman were killed, and that women and children were among the
   wounded.

   No one claimed responsibility, but ethnic Baluch separatists have
   attacked trains in the past.

   The southwestern Baluchistan province has been the scene of a low-level
   separatist insurgency for well over a decade. The separatists accuse
   the central government of unfairly exploiting the region's gas and
   mineral wealth.